Each job will be essentially the same, with the only difference between them being the actual words in your chunk
With that in mind, these are the skills and software that are required to do this job:
You must be able to recognize a gismu from it's pronunciation. This means that you must be able to identify and type the word solely from the audio. If you know Lojban's pronunciation, this is not difficult. This is required because while Lindar recorded the audio /mostly/ in frequency order, some were skipped, and some needed to be re-recorded. If you need a list of the gismu in frequency order, you can find it here:
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Word+frequency+lists%3A+gismu
It is possible that there are more of both unrecorded and badly recorded words (badly recorded being words that are unidentifiable for any reason). If you encounter either in the course of your job, you must be able to contact Lindar, likely preferably via email, to inform him of these words so that he can submit new recordings. In the case of a word or three, preferably to yourself. In the case of a chunk's worth of words, preferably to me so I can add the recording to the chunk list for claimage.
You must possess, on the computer you will be using to work on, Audacity, available for free here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/You must possess, on the same computer, the LAME MP3 encoder. You can download it at this site:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/, which provides the source code, or you can go here:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.php#Binaries to download a binary, or for Windows users you can download the .dll directly from the instructions page that I will make if I get any volunteers.
You must know how to collect a group of files into an archive. It does not matter if you use .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .tar.gz, .
tar.bz, or any other format not mentioned.
You must know how to attach a file to an email.
You must be able to follow written instructions.
Finally, you must be willing to sacrifice some of your free time to do the actual job. These last two are in my opinion no-brainers.
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Jonathan Jones
<eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:12 AM, v4hn
<me@v4hn.de> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:18:43AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Volunteers?
That's not exactly how crowd sourcing works..
- Where's the page with the exact instructions for the task?
(not just some memrise page and a long mail thread)
- Where's a list of jobs to do? I mean "here's the file, everyone, chop it" is _one_
job, not a bunch of them. Just split the word lists (also the audio if possible)
into manageable chunks, number them and and add a wiki page,
where people can mark finished items.
- What to do with the final audio file of each job?
v4hn
IFF I get volunteers, then I will provide exact instructions on what to do, how to do it, and what to do with the finished work.
If I don't get volunteers, then doing any of that work is pointless and a waste of time. As such, there is not currently a page of instructions, nor a list of jobs, nor any other thing.
I hope you don't think that me writing the instructions, cutting the audio into manageable chunks, giving them unique identifiers, creating a means by which volunteers can claim one or more of the chunks to prevent worker overlap, posting all of these things somewhere, and providing a repository for completed jobs, takes no effort on my part, because you would be sorely mistaken. I am not willing to go through all that effort if no one is going to volunteer.
--
mu'o mi'e .aionys.
.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )